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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells / A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Chapter 18: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
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About This Book

The work offers a concise illustrated guide that blends a brief history with a systematic architectural description of the cathedral at Wells. It outlines the building's early medieval origins and its Norman and later Gothic development, then surveys exterior features such as the west front, towers, cloister, and bishop's palace, followed by detailed treatment of interior elements including nave, transepts, choir, chapels, capitals, stained glass, misericords, font, screen, organ, and chapter-house. A closing chapter sketches the diocese and episcopal foundation, while plates, plans, and notes support visitors and students of ecclesiastical architecture.


TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

This book contains, in a few quotes from monumental inscriptions, some special characters that may not be available in all fonts. There are instances of the letters i, u, and o with macrons and u with breve. These have been rendered using the HTML entities for the Unicode characters: ī, ū, ō, and ŭ respectively. There are also single instances of the letters m and x with macron and two instances of letter n with macron. As there are no Unicode characters for these, they have been rendered as [=m], [=x] and [=n].